Fulfilling Web Services' Promises
by Hugo Haas, W3C

Table of contents

• Fulfilling Web services' promises
• A historical look at Web services
• Traditional Web interaction
• Web services interaction
• Web services characteristics
• Making it happen
• An infrastructure to achieve these goals
• The road to get there: standardization
• W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium
• Building the Foundation for the Web
• Overview of the W3C work: Web Services Activity
• Development of a Web services specification
• A stack of Web services standardization efforts at W3C
• XML-based messaging framework
• Designing SOAP Version 1.2
• SOAP Version 1.2 in a nutshell (1/2)
• SOAP Version 1.2 in a nutshell (2/2)
• SOAP Version 1.2 compared to SOAP/1.1 (1/2)
• SOAP Version 1.2 compared to SOAP/1.1 (2/2)
• Service description language
• WSDL 1.2 in a few words
• A WSDL 1.2 description of a service
• Web Services Description Working Group status
• Choreography description language
• A choreography example
• The choreography space
• Web Services Choreography Working Group status
• The need for a common framework
• Internationalization issues
• Status of the infrastructure work
• Extensions: building on top of this infrastructure
• Fulfilling Web services' promises: a two-step process
• Semantics
• Expressing semantics in a machine-readable form
• Semantics: setting expectations
• Where do we stand today?
• References